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18 Cards in this Set
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Memory |
the ability to remember the things that we have experienced, imagined, and learned |
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Information-Processing Model |
a computer-like model used to describe the way humans encode, store, and retrieve information |
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Sensory Registers |
entry points for raw information from the senes |
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Short-Term Memory (STM) |
working memory; briefly stores and processes selected information from the sensory registers |
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Chunking |
the grouping of information into meaningful units for easier handling by short-term memory
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Rote Rehearsal |
retaining information in memory simply by repeating it over and over |
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Long-Term Memory (LTM) |
the portion of memory that is more or less permanent, corresponding to everything we "know" |
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Serial Position Effect |
the finding that when asked to recall a list of unrelated items, performance is better for the items at the beginning and end of the list |
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Elaborative Rehearsal |
the linking of new information in short-term memory to familiar material stored in long-term memory |
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Emotional Memories |
learned emotional responses to various stimuli |
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Explicit Memory |
memory for information that we can readily express in words and are aware of having; these memories can be intentionally retrieved from memory |
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Implicit Memory |
memory for information that we cannot readily express in words and may not be aware of having; these memories cannot be intentionally retrieved from memory |
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Semantic Memories |
memories of facts and concepts ex: recalling that Albany is the capital of New York |
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Episodic Memories |
memories of personally experienced events ex: recalling a trip to Albany |
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Procedural Memories |
motor skills and habits ex: ice skating |
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Types of Explicit Memories |
semantic and episodic |
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Types of Implicit Memories |
procedural and emotional |
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Proactive Interference |
the process by which information already in memory interferes with new information |
